*) This sentence and the following sentence are so clumsily styled that it was almost impossible to translate them literally.
®) H Ao KcaHK) H Ao Toł|'pKOK['k| — micjscc this means that Kilia was under Turkish rule at that time.
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*) The document is written on parchment, 70 centimeters wide and 48 centimeters high; a writing slightly larger than the previous one, but also an index: a large, state seal, but damaged to such an extent that now only a piece of external wax remains.
*) Barchat, also fustian and barakan, is a word of foreign origin and, according to Miklosicz, means Fremdwórter, 5. the same as velvet.
'") Chars means, according to Hażdeua Archiva istoric. II. 172. 1) (see also Gołembiowski. Ubiory w Polsce, p. 219.) light woolen material, but slightly rough; Ua stoffa de lana, u?óra, dar cam aspra.
") Pokoczyny translates Hazhdeu with brane ferecate, literally: belts bound with iron sheets - and he seems to be right.
'-) The word cywka, more correctly cśwka, has, according to Linde, Dictionary of Languages, Polish. I. 231 (Hazhdeu 1st c. does not translate it at all), has a threefold meaning: it means either a tube useful for carrying fluids; or the weaver's coil, i.e. the tube in the weaver's shuttle, die Weberspuhle; or finally a tube for winding thread, silk, etc.
'*) This place is understood by Hażdeu 1. c. not entirely correctly; translating them as follows:?i la trecetória de ori -?i - ce carrii, fie nemtescu fie armenescu, cat 4 gro?T; inse de voru trece acelle carre cu barce, seu pe ghla^a, s^u prin vadu, atuncT nu voru da nici unu banu - expresses that German and Armenian merchants were not obliged to pay for transport even then, when it was carried out by ferry, which is untrue and contrary to the natural order of facts.
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'*) Spatar Wielki, after rum. spatanilii c. niare, also in Moldavia, as in Multans, had the same name as a swordfish, and had its own name, because his duty was to carry the prince's insignia behind the hospodar, and above all, a mace and a sword, on the staff. spata, in modern Greek: aTca^fta.
'=^j Wistyaryusz, also a grand master, had the same rank as a treasurer and, according to Miron Kostyn, had 1st c. pag. 271. very burdensome and unpleasant office. For example, he was obliged to keep all regestras: "the regestra of all the land omnium ordinum is to be with him; he collects tribute, i.e. tribute, for the Turks and for all other expeuses, and in this censetur, the most miserable in this age, that he constantly curae illius sollicitant animuni."
'*) The grand commission, i.e. the equerry, already belonged to the extra senatum officials and the "nisi lirgente necessitate" did not sit on the council. According to Miron Ivostyn, he had "two equerry under him, who were almost curam stabuli gerunt". It was also his responsibility to "provide dispositia of all hay-cutters and sufficient feed for farm horses".
") Speaking about senior Moldavian officials, we allow ourselves, in order to characterize the customs in Moldavia at that time, to quote the following, although very bright, but in any case authentic and true words: "each of these officials - we read in the Polish translation of the Putna Chronicle (in ArchivLi istorica, vol. (i.e. when someone commits an offense), they do not punish with words, but with a stick for various things. And the hospodar himself punishes betrayals with the throat.
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in Suceava 1463
Prince Szczepan of Moldavia guarantees merchants from Lviv, etc. the same commercial rights and freedoms as his predecessors, and promises to honor them faithfully, and even to fulfill them on occasion in accordance with the privilege issued in 1460.
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